This toolkit has been designed for busy RE Teachers to plan an exciting unit of work exploring Religion and the Environment. Interleaving learning between RE, Geography and Science, the resource asks learners to consider “Should followers of religions and worldviews take special care of the environment?” The toolkit contains a menu of options to help you deliver a unit of work including; A fully planned introductory lesson Starter, main and plenary activities Current case studies and news stories to engage your students Bespoke films interviewing representatives from different religions and worldviews Religion and worldview fact sheet resources, useful for other topics too " The toolkit was perfect for our Year 8s it was very useful as is packed with content and activities that are relevant and allow students to demonstrate what they know about ecology and RE" Head of RE Stratford School Academy. This toolkit provides resources that will help students to explore the following questions: What do religions and worldviews teach about ecology? How does a religion or philosophy impact lifestyles? How do we know what the right moral action is in a situation? Do followers of religions and worldviews have a duty to campaign on environmental issues?

Summer 2022 saw extremes of weather across the Globe. Examples included The UK seeing record temperatures of 40 degrees, wildfires and drought in parts of Europe as well as in China and the USA, whilst countries such as Pakistan experienced historic levels of flooding. Water is vital for life and this lesson extension pack explores the link between water, the environment and religion and worldviews. This pack is an extension of RE Matter’s Toolkit Should followers of Religion and Worldviews take special care of The Environment?

The ‘Challenging Religious and Worldview Stereotypes’ toolkit is a resource to support schools in dealing with the topic of stereotyping and how to overcome it. It contains resources and films on which to base your teaching within RE, PSHE or Citizenship lessons and in tutor time. This toolkit contains assembly and classroom ideas for you to use within your school. The intention is that you choose activities that are suitable for your context. We hope that you find them useful!

‘Bullying and Belief’ is an anti-bullying toolkit for secondary schools. It contains five lesson plans, films and resources, that would be suitable for RE or PSHE lessons. The lessons have been planned so that they can also run as a drop-down day as a focus to events such as Interfaith Week or Anti-Bullying Week. The toolkit also contains resources for organising assemblies around this theme. The five lessons consider: Why do some people bully others? How should we treat one another? Bullying and Belief- what would you do? What are we worth? The lessons would also work well as part of Tutor Time.

‘Bullying and Belief’ is an anti-bullying toolkit for primary schools. It contains lesson plans, films and resources, that would be suitable for RE or PSHE lessons. The lessons have been planned so that they can also run as a drop-down day as a focus to events such as Interfaith Week or Anti-Bullying Week. The toolkit also contains resources for organising assemblies around this theme. The five lessons consider: Why do some people bully others? How should we treat one another? Bullying and Belief- what would you do? What are we worth?